This New Year's Eve, dress up in your finest evening wear and head along to one of the city's most beautiful buildings, The Long Bar at the Waldorf Astoria Shanghai on the Bund, for a celebration to ring in 2021 in historic style.

Since 1864, people have been heading to this majestic Bund property to sip tea, play pool and celebrate fortunes made by getting roaring drunk. The Shanghai Club that housed the Long Bar was the utmost expression of Shanghai high society; the Club’s membership was the most exclusive in the city. Read all about its fascinating history right here. 

From 8pm on December 31, you can honor the memory of generations past, live it up in style and let off the steam at the Long Bar's New Year’s Eve countdown party, listening to the live band and enjoying one of these amazing Champagne packages:

• RMB688 net per person including two glasses of Perrier-Jouët Champagne at the bar

• RMB1,288 net per person including free flow Perrier-Jouët Champagne, with table reservation

• RMB2,021 net per person including free flow Perrier-Jouët Champagne and oysters, with table reservation